203.351.4258 Office(s) Stamford Practice Areas(s) Business and Commercial Litigation Closely Held Business Litigation Corporate Finance Litigation Group Private Clients Group Trusts and Estates Education Harvard Law School, LL.B., 1959 Harvard College, A.B., 1956 Only admitted in DC

William C. Weitzel, Jr. , a retired Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Texaco Inc., graduated from Harvard College in 1956 and from Harvard Law School in 1959.

Between 1959 and 1966, Bill held positions as a law clerk with the Chief Judge of the Federal Court in Baltimore, Maryland, and as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C., where he was the trial attorney for many of that city's major criminal cases.

Bill joined Texaco as an attorney in 1966 and was named Head of the Litigation Section in 1967.  He was elected General Counsel of Texaco in 1977, Vice President in 1982 and Senior Vice President in 1984.  He retired in 1990, having served more than 12 years as General Counsel of Texaco, and joined Cummings & Lockwood.

Bill is a Trustee of the Center for American and International Law, and a member of the American Law Institute.  He is past President of the Texaco Philanthropic Foundation, Inc., a past Chairman of the American Petroleum Institute's General Committee on Law, and a past member of the Advisory Committee of the Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law at Columbia University.  He is a Trustee of the Forman School and is President of the Harvard Club of Fairfield County and a former Director of the Harvard Alumni Association.